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Gizmos
Bless me Father for I have ...
I
have to admit one thing --- our Friday guest stopped in Delaware (no
sales tax) and bought some big-ass MAC, that was still in the box— she
brought it in so it wouldn't be stolen form the car— and
an iPad.
Since the iPad came with zero written directions, she asked
me to figure out how to get out of the "airplane mode" she was
stuck
in, and hook her up to my wireless. In the process of learning
how to
do all this (first one I'd held in my grubby little hands) I became
envious. There was a day when I'd have been first on the block to
own one, but those days are gone. Right now I just want a fricken
toaster that will toast a bagel in less than 3 minutes, and the muscles
to chop
wood at a decent rate.
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I´ve got, or have had, every mac out of the blocks. Didn´t need an iPad though. Then, SHMBO (who don´t know a computer from a Model T) up and bought one. Not nary an instruction. It´s JUST enough different from my normal OS to have driven me absolutely around the bend bugshit crazy. I hung in there though and now I want one. However,I´ll poke my eye with a sharp stick before I try a stunt like that again.
ReplyDeleteBless me Father for I have typeoed...SWMBO, dummy.
ReplyDelete[That don't start with a 'H'?!?
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Glad to see ya up and runnin, Rodgie. Been thinking about you and the lovely and talented MoSup in this time of "Straight Storms" and power grid failures...
e~C
PS -- I want one, too.
Not gonna, but......
*sigh* sometimes I hate being an adult.
It was Hell, e~C, but they couldn't make me talk!
ReplyDeleteA Swiss Army Knife wif a speculum?
ReplyDeleteAngus
• $1400 for a Swiss Army knife,
ReplyDeleteand in the first week you lose either the toothpick or tweezers.
• Just occurred to me that the most useless flip-out gizmo on a Swiss Army knife would be a hone for the other blades.
Well, okay, if it replaced the toothpick or tweezers in their slots, yeah.
When the ipad first came out, I wasn't impressed.
ReplyDeleteWhen the second version came out, I was intrigued, but that was it. The missus went out and bought me one.
Ugh. Damn things are addictive and highly usable. A warning to the rest of you out there - don't look at them. Don't use them. They'll draw you in and drain your wallet.
I like the lanyard ring. Can't you just imagine that monstrosity dangling from your keychain?
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